Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2002
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| author | Cattaneo, Andrea |
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| description | Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole. It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals. -- Author's Abstract |
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| spelling | CGSpace1555962025-01-10T06:37:47Z Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Cattaneo, Andrea environmental degradation poverty alleviation economic growth infrastructure land tenure deforestation devaluation natural resources management technological changes Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole. It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals. -- Author's Abstract 2002 2024-10-24T12:42:19Z 2024-10-24T12:42:19Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155596 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Cattaneo, Andrea. 2002. Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Research Report 129. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155596 |
| spellingShingle | environmental degradation poverty alleviation economic growth infrastructure land tenure deforestation devaluation natural resources management technological changes Cattaneo, Andrea Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title | Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_full | Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_fullStr | Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_short | Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_sort | balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the brazilian amazon |
| topic | environmental degradation poverty alleviation economic growth infrastructure land tenure deforestation devaluation natural resources management technological changes |
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